In fairness, Bob fell on his sword for the party, and was treated fairly shamefully for it.

The party should have taken the loss to Obama the first time around, to evaluate what in the Hells had gone wrong. To look at what their platform, and the base that they were encouraging had cost them. After the last go around, they had another opportunity to re-evaluate, and instead, have tripled down on the stupid that now typifies the party faithful. Yes, I'm looking at the use of TEA Party idiots, Libertarians who conveniently vote Republican consistently, and the Religious Right that overlooks liars, adulterers, usurers, and thieves because they happen to give lip service about homosexuals--unless of course they get caught in a men's stall with one--and on abortion, but are perfectly fine with the death penalty and shooting brown people.

The Republican party should be leading the charge for religious freedom--and by that, that means more than just Christians, but Jews, Muslims and Buddhists and more. It should be leading the charge on marriage equality. It should be leading to parity in the tax code. Historically, the party was environmental issues because we hold our lands for our posterity. And it simply isn't. It isn't, because the leadership has turned to myopic concerns that embraced an election strategy championed by NeoCons who wanted the leadership for themselves, and damn the country, damn the nation, and damn the people, but they were going to see their "ideals" through, no matter how bankrupt the nation would become, how many people had to die overseas, and how devastated the economy would be seeing it through. It is the reason I left the party, because I saw that no amount of voting within the party for "better" candidates would do any good, because the only choices were insane or simply outrageously corrupt. The few sane candidates were marginalized from the get go. The party has lost its way, and at this point, it needs to be put out of its misery, and let the TEA Party idiots and "Libertarians" pick over the bones with the Religious Right, and let something new rise from the ashes while the Idiot Brigade fights for who loves America more...

hubiestubert:In fairness, Bob fell on his sword for the party, and was treated fairly shamefully for it.

The party should have taken the loss to Obama the first time around, to evaluate what in the Hells had gone wrong. To look at what their platform, and the base that they were encouraging had cost them. After the last go around, they had another opportunity to re-evaluate, and instead, have tripled down on the stupid that now typifies the party faithful. Yes, I'm looking at the use of TEA Party idiots, Libertarians who conveniently vote Republican consistently, and the Religious Right that overlooks liars, adulterers, usurers, and thieves because they happen to give lip service about homosexuals--unless of course they get caught in a men's stall with one--and on abortion, but are perfectly fine with the death penalty and shooting brown people.

The Republican party should be leading the charge for religious freedom--and by that, that means more than just Christians, but Jews, Muslims and Buddhists and more. It should be leading the charge on marriage equality. It should be leading to parity in the tax code. Historically, the party was environmental issues because we hold our lands for our posterity. And it simply isn't. It isn't, because the leadership has turned to myopic concerns that embraced an election strategy championed by NeoCons who wanted the leadership for themselves, and damn the country, damn the nation, and damn the people, but they were going to see their "ideals" through, no matter how bankrupt the nation would become, how many people had to die overseas, and how devastated the economy would be seeing it through. It is the reason I left the party, because I saw that no amount of voting within the party for "better" candidates would do any good, because the only choices were insane or simply outrageously corrupt. The few sane candidates were marginalized from the get go. The party has lost its way, and at this point, it needs to be put out of its misery, and le ...

hubiestubert:In fairness, Bob fell on his sword for the party, and was treated fairly shamefully for it.

The party should have taken the loss to Obama the first time around, to evaluate what in the Hells had gone wrong. To look at what their platform, and the base that they were encouraging had cost them. After the last go around, they had another opportunity to re-evaluate, and instead, have tripled down on the stupid that now typifies the party faithful. Yes, I'm looking at the use of TEA Party idiots, Libertarians who conveniently vote Republican consistently, and the Religious Right that overlooks liars, adulterers, usurers, and thieves because they happen to give lip service about homosexuals--unless of course they get caught in a men's stall with one--and on abortion, but are perfectly fine with the death penalty and shooting brown people.

The Republican party should be leading the charge for religious freedom--and by that, that means more than just Christians, but Jews, Muslims and Buddhists and more. It should be leading the charge on marriage equality. It should be leading to parity in the tax code. Historically, the party was environmental issues because we hold our lands for our posterity. And it simply isn't. It isn't, because the leadership has turned to myopic concerns that embraced an election strategy championed by NeoCons who wanted the leadership for themselves, and damn the country, damn the nation, and damn the people, but they were going to see their "ideals" through, no matter how bankrupt the nation would become, how many people had to die overseas, and how devastated the economy would be seeing it through. It is the reason I left the party, because I saw that no amount of voting within the party for "better" candidates would do any good, because the only choices were insane or simply outrageously corrupt. The few sane candidates were marginalized from the get go. The party has lost its way, and at this point, it needs to be put out of its misery, and le ...

FTFA: "I think one mistake he's made was not getting together more with Congress early on in his first administration. There's nothing like knowing the person you are talking to on the telephone, if you had an opportunity to sit down with that person and visit - not about anything, but just visit."

ib_thinkin:FTFA: "I think one mistake he's made was not getting together more with Congress early on in his first administration. There's nothing like knowing the person you are talking to on the telephone, if you had an opportunity to sit down with that person and visit - not about anything, but just visit."

I don't understand; was he asleep for all of 2009, or just high?

Those rich guys have the best dope, so I would go with stoned to the gills.

gaslight:The GOP of today has finally become the sort of organization of which Joe McCarthy would be proud.

Here is a quote from Ann Coulter.

"The myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. "

NFA:gaslight: The GOP of today has finally become the sort of organization of which Joe McCarthy would be proud.

Here is a quote from Ann Coulter.

"The myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. "

She is bat-shiat crazy.

Less crazy, than a dedicated cheerleader. She is smart enough to realize that is exactly what she is, and pretty much shameless in accepting that role. What is sort of sad about it, is that she is also smart enough to realize that her usefulness is fading, so in order to try to secure a continuing place at the table, she has to crank up the shamelessness up even further. Her looks are not what they used to be, she doesn't have a solid platform to be seen and heard, so when she gets her opportunities, she takes them, because she HAS to prove that she is a good gray mare. Revisionist history? That's OK. Lies and damned lies? That's OK. Demagoguery? Fine so long as it's her side. The crazy HAS to be cranked up, because the audience loses interest fast, and she, simply put, isn't as young as she used to be, and Phylis Schafely's role is the only one she can hope to fill, because she hasn't got some strong husband to trot her around the room. That alone puts her in odd company, because she has to realize that even Rush Limbaugh had a wife, a few times even, and her spinster status means that she has a harder road to hoe than the other Fox Blonds. She doesn't have the hook with values voters immediately, so she has to go them one better. And it is sort of sad. She's smart enough to realize how she's being used, to know that her spotlight has a limited window, and yet, there she goes, hoping to cash a few more checks before she is replaced.

NFA:gaslight: The GOP of today has finally become the sort of organization of which Joe McCarthy would be proud.

Here is a quote from Ann Coulter.

"The myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. "

She is bat-shiat crazy.

WOWthat is some grade-A DERP

Why is anyone trying to polish that turd? He is long dead and gone, defending him ... wtf.

The GOP won't stop devolving until the only people left are all the pants-shiatting crazies that do nothing but compile lists.

What happens after that will be entertaining to watch!

We're pretty much there. Outlawing rising ocean levels ring a bell? How about Agenda 21 and 'Creeping Sharia'? These aren't things that just exist out there in the blogosphere, these are actual things that Republican Legislators waste taxpayer dollars on.

Don't worry, he tossed this in:He also assigned blame for Washington's current state of gridlock to President Barack Obama, who he argued was failing to bridge divides between the capital's ideological camps.

namatad:NFA: gaslight: The GOP of today has finally become the sort of organization of which Joe McCarthy would be proud.

Here is a quote from Ann Coulter.

"The myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. "

She is bat-shiat crazy.

WOWthat is some grade-A DERP

Why is anyone trying to polish that turd? He is long dead and gone, defending him ... wtf.

well this is coming from a shrill smear merchant that is not comfortable with "his" homosexuality, why do you think, that he became a she . Also when, she comes off with the democrats being "mad with syphilis" why does the he-she flick her hair? To me that comes off as somebody with not a healthybody or, brain his or herself.

Don't worry, he tossed this in:He also assigned blame for Washington's current state of gridlock to President Barack Obama, who he argued was failing to bridge divides between the capital's ideological camps.

Go fark yourself, Bob.

How do you bridge the difference between "Give me everything I want, unconditionally" and Obama's agenda?

At one time the GOP for smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and minding your own damn business. These days they don't see a government program they don't like (unless is a democrat idea), they spend like drunken sailors in a whore house, and you better not be having any fun that they don't approve of, and that goes double for those ickey gheys.

tinfoil-hat maggie:In other news Bob Dole is still alive. I did not know that./Never really liked the guy or his policies but he probably was one of the last Republican politicians that I could respect

agree completely--I watched the interview this morning, he basically personified self respect. I realized I hadn't felt any respect for any republican in so long, that it was clear the party used to be...way less derpy.

you know what really grinds my gears???? Is that i have to vote Democrat because Republicans are out of their minds. And i honestly believe that if Republicans actually got their heads out of their asses for a minute and decided to actually come to reality they would be the dominant political party in this nation, but no we're stuck with Democrats

TimonC346:tinfoil-hat maggie: In other news Bob Dole is still alive. I did not know that./Never really liked the guy or his policies but he probably was one of the last Republican politicians that I could respect

agree completely--I watched the interview this morning, he basically personified self respect. I realized I hadn't felt any respect for any republican in so long, that it was clear the party used to be...way less derpy.

MhmmBut he lost all of my respect when he refused to stand up and be counted.He let the party go insane for decades, because he was still thinking about running for prez, or his wife might be on a ticket. Now that those dreams are over, he wakes up?? and blames Obama for not reaching across the aisle?? PLEASE

Did Bob mention any of the clusterfark which happened from 2001-2008 and properly place the blame at Bush 2.0's feet? No? I didnt think so.

soia:you know what really grinds my gears???? Is that i have to vote Democrat because Republicans are out of their minds. And i honestly believe that if Republicans actually got their heads out of their asses for a minute and decided to actually come to reality they would be the dominant political party in this nation, but no we're stuck with Democrats

UMNOYou vote for the democrats because they have become the centrist party.Started with Clinton, Algore lost because he was too left, wtf Kerry, and Obama was back to the center.

Center is defined as "the majority of americans" ... as in the majority of americans want: pot legal, gay marriage legal, healthcare for all, government out of our faces, religion out of our faces, abortion to be legal, etc etc etc.

The GOP was taken over by a couple different groups of wackjobs. Teahadists and Bible thumpers.If you remove the wackjob elements of the GOP's platform, well, you are left with the DEM platform?

/spare me the union speech, esp since unions have been dying for decades./spare me the small government speech, unless you can point to a GOP that has cut government overall. which you cant.

so yah, suck it up and get over it, you have become a democrat. sucks to be you, but they have morphed into your party. The other one, the GOP? They are never coming back. Not for 6-20 years at least.